Type information: Lectotype, ex collection Dobrovl.> N. N. Plavilstshikov, Zoological Museum, University of Moscow [type locality ‘ Oltu ’ (Turkey: Erzurum)]
Provincial distribution in Turkey: TR-A: EZ (Plavilstshikov 1937; Breuning 1962a; Danilevsky and Murzin 2009; Löbl and Smetana 2010; Özdikmen 2010, 2012; Danilevsky 2015a)
Range: A: TR
Other known subspecies: D. laeve laeve Faldermann, 1837: 278 A: IN; D. laeve hyrcanum Jakovlev, 1899 b: 64 A: IN; D. laeve vladimiri Danilevsky and Murzin, 2009: 13 A: AR